Cat Willett launches "Unconditional," with Attia Taylor

Cat will be joined by women and pets featured in Unconditional for a special reading, followed by a conversation with Womanly founder Attia Taylor, an audience Q&A, and a book signing and reception.

Attendees are welcome to bring their own pets if they are well behaved and comfortable around a range of animals.

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In Unconditional, popular illustrator and writer Cat Willett explores the deep, sometimes transcendent relationship between women and their animal companions. The animals she’s shared her life with have pulled her through difficult times, accompanied her through growth and transition, and taught her a great deal about pain and loss. Using rich, full-color illustrations, she shares illuminating stories of different women and their pets, including:

• Terra and her parrot, Pooja, grieved together when Terra’s mother passed away from pancreatic cancer.
• Tuck and Liza, two cats adopted in Ukraine and Poland, helped Brianne cope with the challenge of waiting for her journalist husband to return from an assignment in a war zone.
• Hyesu adopted her dog, Dutch, from a shelter and found calm and support for her anxiety.
• Finn, Pam’s rabbit, helped her redefine the meaning of family while providing companionship and support living in a big city far from home.

With these honest, pure retellings, as well as her own stories, Willett reveals the mutual bond that grows when animals are invited into our sphere and how meaningful those relationships can be.

Cat Willett is an illustrator and author whose work celebrates women and aims to uplift and inspire others through comics and books. She is the author of The Queen of Wands: The Story of Pamela Colman Smith: The Artist Behind the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck (Running Press, September 2022 and a French edition, La Reine de Bâtons, Le Lotus & l’èlèphant, 2024), Women of Tarot, An Illustrated History of Divinators, Cards Readers and Mystics (Running Press, June 2024), and Unconditional, Women and the Animals They Love (Princeton Architectural Press, 2026). Cat lives in Brooklyn with her partner, their two boys, and their dog Bowie.

Attia Taylor is a Brooklyn based creative producer, director, and musician. She is the founder of Womanly, a creative studio and publication founded in 2017 to provide preventive health information through art to Black and Brown women and non-binary folks. Her work is rooted in social justice and health advocacy to bring inclusive and culturally relevant content to print and film. She is passionate about building and cultivating communities through storytelling, research, and creative production.

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